-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- When a website that claims more than a half-billion monthly visitors gets hacked , users pay attention .

So when we wrote Thursday about hackers who published login information for more than 450,000 Yahoo users , readers had plenty to say about it .

Dozens of your comments hovered around a central theme : Who still uses Yahoo anyway ?

Selendis said : `` hmmm , I may be on that list . except that it would be so old , the email and password would n't get you anywhere . have not logged into a yahoo account in years . do n't even remember what email address it would have had . ''

Maekju80 : `` I 'm surprised that many people still use Yahoo . Wonder if those same users still have 8-Track tapes too ? ''

prelude066 : `` Who still has a yahoo account ? Over 50 year old white guys who have n't checked it in 6 years ... ''

Yahoo may not have the digital sex appeal it did back in the glory days of the '90s dotcom boom . And , to be sure , recent months have been tough on the venerable Web giant . The company cut 2,000 jobs in April as part of an overhaul by then-CEO Scott Thompson . Then , less than a month later , Thompson himself was out after the discovery that he had padded his resume with a phony college degree .

But having been perhaps the Web 's first major portal , Yahoo holds onto a massive worldwide base of users . Its e-mail service is the world 's second-most popular , behind Microsoft 's Hotmail , although Google 's Gmail has been gaining big chunks of ground in recent years .

Many of you blamed Yahoo for not having taken tougher security measures :

Sixnard : `` What 's annoying is that there are companies who do this right , but so many other companies who are n't paying attention . Amazon , for example , assumes that their systems will be broken into despite all precautions , and it stores personal information encrypted and on separate servers so multiple break-ins and extensive correlation would be needed to obtain useful information . ''

They also report break-ins when they occur with full details , so anyone else who 's interested can take steps to prevent further exploits . People know how to do this , they just chose not to .

In a written statement Thursday , Yahoo said they were fixing the exploit the hackers used and changing the passwords of users who were hit . They said that less than 5 % of the breached e-mail accounts had their active passwords attached to them .

Some readers felt like the story was overblown and that hacks like this are , unfortunately , part of online life :

garyguy : `` Seems only the biggies get headlines . Actually there were new reports today that an Android forum and an Nvidia forum were also hacked . It 's getting to the point where you 'll need a password to use your password . ''

Cat Nippy : `` There are always security risks in technology and communication . That does n't mean we should all retreat to the Dark Ages and start sending out information on stone tablets . Over-react much ? ''

And , of course , some of you decided to have some fun with it :

TwitHappens : `` Now someone can finally respond to that Nigerian lawyer who wants give me $ 12 million if I just give him my checking acct number ... ''

Richard Williams : `` Oh great now someone is going to make fantasy football trades without my knowledge ''

Finally , on a more useful note , many readers wanted to know where they could find out if their account was one of the ones that was compromised .

CNN Tech is not linking to the hackers ' Web page . But security firm Sucuri Labs has created a page with a tool it says will tell users whether their e-mail address was leaked .

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CNN readers respond to news of hackers who exposed 450,000 Yahoo accounts

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Many felt Yahoo could have done more to prevent the leak

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Others say the story was overblown , that hacks are a part of online life

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Many jokesters say : People still use Yahoo ?